Preview — Body Scissors
by Jerome Doolittle

Body Scissors: Body Scissors

A presidential candidate hires Bethany to investigate his choice for Secretary of State, J. Alden Kellicot. Bethany finds Kellicot's background flawless--except for his coked-up, murdered daughter. When an attempt is made on Bethany's life, he vows to uncover what someone is desperately trying to hide.

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A Tom Bethany mystery set in Boston. Bethany is Vietnam veteran who has taken himself off the grid to live covertly. He is security consultant who is hired by a presidential campaign committee to vet a potential Secretary of State nominee. In the course of doing this, he tries to solve the murder of the nominee's daughter a couple of years earlier.

It is not a bad story which started slowly for me, but I got into it after a while. Bethany is a bit of a strange character and it takes a while to dA Tom Bethany mystery set in Boston. Bethany is Vietnam veteran who has taken himself off the grid to live covertly. He is security consultant who is hired by a presidential campaign committee to vet a potential Secretary of State nominee. In the course of doing this, he tries to solve the murder of the nominee's daughter a couple of years earlier.

It is not a bad story which started slowly for me, but I got into it after a while. Bethany is a bit of a strange character and it takes a while to deal with him as the lead character....more

#1 in Tom Bethany series. Finalist 1991 Shamus Award for Best First Novel. Debut novel in the series that ran for 6 novels between 1990 and 1995.

Tom Bethany is hired to vet the man a presidential candidate wants to nominate as Secretary of State. J. Alden Kellicott, a Harvard professor, seems to have impeccable background. His daughter is a dropout and when Tom investigates her he finds evidence that she is not as black as her father paints her. Then Tom is attacked by a knife wielding Hispanic.

From Fantastic Fiction: A presidential candidate hires Bethany to investigate his choice for Secretary of State, J. Alden Kellicot. Bethany finds Kellicot's background flawless--except for his coked-up, murdered daughter. When an attempt is made on Bethany's life, he vows to uncover what someone is desperately trying to hide.

Darker than Block's Matt Scudeder series but good. I may read more of these.